From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishanalogousa‧nal‧o‧gous /əˈnæləɡəs/ ●○○AWL adjective formalLIKE/SIMILARsimilar to another situation or thing so that a comparison can be madeanalogous to/with
The report’s findings are analogous with our own.Examples from the Corpusanalogous• These schemata are analogous to concepts, categories, or cards in a file.• The healthy kind is analogous to how the body treats a simplefleshwound.• The system is somewhat analogous to one that might be devised as a trot for students of Latin.• I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriateresearch, analogous to the notion of appropriate technology.• The relation between the fabula and the syuzhet is roughly analogous to the one between practical and poeticlanguage.• The relationship of the teacher to research is analogous to the relationship of the musicalsoloist to the score.analogous to/with• A self-sufficientsettlement is analogous to a pin worker who must cut, bend, attach, and deliver by himself.• The situation is analogous to another regulator in the body-the one controllingweight.• This process is in many ways analogous todeductive reasoning.• Moving clockwise, orange is analogous to red.• But, contrary to popularbelief, they are not at all analogous totaperecorders.• Bandwidth is analogous to the number of lanes on a highway.• The relation between the fabula and the syuzhet is roughly analogous to the one between practical and poetic language.• In such a situation behaviour is understood to be analogous to war.Originanalogous(1600-1700)Latinanalogus, from Greekanalogos, from ana-“according to” + logos“reason, ratio”
